This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Jemma Crew, Dominic Casciani, Tom Symonds & Sean Coughlan at the High Court BBC News Prince Harry has accused tabloid newspapers of hacking his voicemails when he was a teenager, saying it made him feel he
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By Naomi Grimley & Camilla Horrox BBC News, Accra The recruitment of nurses by high-income countries from poorer nations is “out of control”, according to the head of one of the world’s biggest nursing groups. The comments come as the BBC finds evidence of how Ghana’s health system is struggling due to the “brain-drain”. Many
Getty Images By Emily McGarvey in London & James Waterhouse in Kyiv BBC News Ukrainian forces are “shifting to offensive actions” in some areas, the country’s Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Malyar has said. Ukrainian military sources told the BBC that a series of small scale armoured offensive operations are under way. They did not say
Getty Images By George Wright BBC News Russia’s defence ministry says it has thwarted a major Ukrainian offensive and killed 250 Ukrainian troops. There has been no comment from Kyiv and the Russian claim has not been independently verified. The ministry said Ukraine had launched the offensive in the Donetsk region on Sunday using six
Family Photo The family of a 17-year-old boy who died after being pulled from the sea in Bournemouth say they are “heartbroken and devastated” at his death. Joe Abbess and a 12-year-old girl, named locally as Sunnah Khan, from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, died in the incident involving 10 swimmers on Wednesday. Joe and Sunnah both
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Archana Shukla in Odisha and James FitzGerald in London BBC News People found guilty over a deadly rail accident in eastern India will be “punished stringently”, the country’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said. At least
Reuters The train collision in India’s eastern Odisha (previously known as Orissa) state on Friday evening – the country’s worst this century – involved two passenger trains and a freight train. Officials said several carriages from the Shalimar-Chennai Coromandel Express derailed in Balasore district, hit a stationary goods train and several of its coaches ended
Reuters At least 30 people have been killed and scores of others injured after trains collided in India’s eastern Odisha state, local officials say. Nearly 50 ambulances were sent to the scene in the Balasore district, the state’s chief secretary said. Pradeep Jena added that two passenger trains and a goods train were involved. Indian
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Steven McIntosh Entertainment reporter Phillip Schofield has said he has “lost everything” and does not see a future for his career, in an emotional and frank interview with BBC News. After fleeing waiting paparazzi outside his
Getty Images The US Congress has approved a deal to lift the country’s borrowing limit, days before the world’s largest economy is due to default on its debt. The bipartisan measure sped through the Senate by a vote of 63-36, a day after it cleared the US House of Representatives. President Joe Biden has said
Getty Images The government is to launch a legal challenge over the Covid inquiry’s demand for WhatsApp messages and documents. Officials missed a 4pm deadline to disclose messages between Boris Johnson and his advisers during the pandemic, as well as his diaries and notebooks. The government has refused to disclose some of the material, arguing
Getty Images By Sam Cabral BBC News, Washington The House of Representatives has approved a deal to allow the US to borrow more money, days before the world’s biggest economy is due to start defaulting on its debt. The measure easily passed the chamber by a vote of 314-117, despite some defections on both sides